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Don Marquis Quotes

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: July 29, 1878 - December 29, 1937

Topics

People World Hell Go Know Want

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

America Ferrera

Life Thankful Perspective Child Know

Football is my happiness.

Happiness Football

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

Martin Van Buren

Limits Acting Possible Always Within

In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards have gone up, so my comfort level is higher as well.

Beginning Feel Acting Comfort Living

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Art Architecture Speak Buildings

Sometimes you have to ask the question as if it's going to be your last question - as if it's going to be the last time you talk to that person.

Time You Person Sometimes Talk Ask

And for me, it's been, not only where I learned, but the people that I met there. Most of the people that I work with are guys that, one way or another, have been associated with the university.

Work People Me Way University Where

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Corrie Ten Boom

Trust You Dark Train Jump Tunnel

I think when you sign a recording deal, you think, 'I'm going to put out a song and have a hit right away. I'll be a giant superstar. I can take over the world now.' But I put out a song, and it did OK. It wasn't like leaps and bounds.

Style Fitness Writing Prove Craft

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

Me Forward Desire Songwriting Pushed

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Young State Intoxication Permanently

Because I'm training so much, I always have a lot of energy. Once I've finished training, I come home and have some down time, and then I realise it's 12:30 A.M. and I should have been in bed 2 hours ago. That can get annoying.

Home Time Training Energy Down Bed

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